cubiculum

The fresco was discovered in a cubiculum, or bedroom, in the remains of the Roman city.

In Mr. Paladino’s white cubiculum, or bedroom, a figure stares at the wall, seemingly looking away from the plaster casts of Vesuvius’s victims.

In one, known as the Cubiculum of the Veiled Woman, there is an image of a woman with arms outstretched as if saying Mass. She is wearing what some say she is garments worn by priests.

Deinde ipsum actum, clausum cubiculum nudi pene coactus ubera eius exstitit.

From this chapel we enter the Cubiculum of Sta.